M-EID Events and Announcements

M-EID Journal Club - Recent advances in molecular techniques for the detection of phylogenetic markers and functional genes in microbial communities

Bill Holben and a host of others will give brief overviews of recent methodological advances in molecular microbial ecology. All are welcome to attend. This will replace the Wednesday evening Journal Club for next week.

Featured Workshop/Seminar Speaker: Anatoly Yagola on Inverse Problems

The ecology of endemic, epidemic and emergent infectious diseases is a topic of local and global importance with considerable scientific, societal, ethical and policy aspects. The M-EID Program unites faculty researchers from multiple disciplines in an integrative enterprise to train Ph.D. students to lead the collaborative, cross-disciplinary efforts needed to address complex real-world problems as exemplified by the ecology of infectious disease.

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Departmental Events and Announcements

Math Colloquium Series: Middle School Teachers' Formative Use of a Feedback Guide

As part of a professional development program focused on mathematics problem solving, middle school teachers were introduced to a feedback guide intended to help them provide feedback to students and make instructional decisions. The teachers' use of this feedback guide is the focus of this talk. I will discuss the extent to which teachers use the guide reliably, as well as the evidence of the teachers' use of the feedback guide to inform follow-up instruction. Although the subjects of the study were middle school teachers, the discussion about instructional planning has implications for all levels of instruction.

OBE Wednesday Seminar Series

Presenter: Meridith Swett - "Hormonal Correlates of a Unique Behavioral Polymorphism in the White-Throated Sparrow."

Ecology Wednesday Seminar Series

Presenter: Tom Brooks - Center for Applied Biodiversity Science Conservation International - "Global biodiversity conservation priorities."

Career Advice for Graduate Students

Presenter: Diana Lurie - University of Montana - "Career Advice for Graduate Students".

Standards-based or Traditional Mathematics: Does it matter?

"Math Wars" have been an ongoing event in the mathematics education community, which includes school districts, teachers, parents, mathematicians, and mathematics educators. There are questions about which curricula and pedagogy, Standards-based or traditional mathematics curricula, best support rigorous instruction that promotes students’ superior mathematical understanding. The research projects in which I have been involved attempt to answer these questions by assessing student learning and understanding of mathematics at middle grades and high school levels, and, their long term course-taking patterns, and persistence in post-secondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classes after participating in a traditional, University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP), or Standards-based mathematics curriculum. College mathematics placement tests are included in the study as well. The findings have implications for middle grades and high school mathematics curriculum selection, post-secondary student placement, and for future research in this area.

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